The 35th Annual Looking Glass Festival

The Looking Glass has hosted contra and square dances, workshops, and other traditional music and arts activities for close to 35 years. We're a volunteer non-profit family-friendly organization, and all are welcome, regardless of age, color, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression. You don't even need to bring a dance partner. Please join us on the dance floor soon! Here are some details:

How much? Costs are $10 for members of Looking Glass, $12 for non-members, and $6 for students and first time dancers.

When? First and Third Saturday evenings September to June, with the new dancers lesson at 6:30pm. Dancing is from 7-10pm. If you're new or just want a refresher, we recommend you come to the lesson.

Fall 2019 - What's Happening?

Both Lansing area contra and square dance committees have been busy lining up dance bands and callers for our upcoming fall and winter dance season. The Looking Glass will begin hosting dances again on Sept. 21, while the Ten Pound Fiddle will host their first dance on Oct. 5. (Be sure to also check out TPF's concert season, there are lots of folk and traditional bands and performers you will want to see.)

September 20-22 - Michigan Dance Heritage, Fall Dance Camp will be held at Camp Cavell, Lexington, MI (very near Port Huron, on the Lake Huron shore.) There's still room for you! We're pleased to see that Joseph Pimentel is calling. More info at https://michigandanceheritage.org/fall

October 18-20 - Looking Glass Festival 2019 Note we're going back to 3rd weekend in October- so the dates will be Oct 18,19 and 20. We're bringing back long time musical friends - Hotpoint Stringband- to provide the tunes. Callers will be Alexandra Deis-Lauby and Roger Diggle. The good news is we will be at CUMC-And we can dance later than 10pm. More details to come. Online Registration is open now!

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The rest of our schedule is coming very very soon on our regular Contra Dances page!

See below? That's us having a blast!

If you haven't tried this yet, we encourage you to come to a dance soon. It truly is a great time, as you will see, because everyone is smiling! Come at 6:30pm for the lesson. Plus, the caller gives us a walk-through before every dance, to show us how it's done. Then be ready to have a blast with us!